Word Meanings - UNSCALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of scales; to remove scales from. purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. Milton.

Related words: (words related to UNSCALE)

• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• PURGATORY
  Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.
• PURGATORIAL; PURGATORIAN
  Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.
• FOUNTAINLESS
  Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton.
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• ABUSIVELY
  In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
• PURGER
  One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
• PURGATIVELY
  In a purgative manner.
• SIGHTED
  Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
• HEAVENLY
  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
• DIVESTURE
  Divestiture.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• SIGHTING
  from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
• DIVEST
  See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
• PURGERY
  The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• PURGAMENT
  A cathartic; a purgative. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which is excreted; excretion.
• FOUNTAIN
  1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other
• EXPURGATORIAL
  Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• EXPURGATOR
  One who expurgates or purifies.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• EXPURGATE
  To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. (more info) purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge,
• INABUSIVELY
  Without abuse.
• HIGH-SIGHTED
  Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.
• COMPURGATION
  The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from
• IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
  1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton.
• SUPERPURGATION
  Excessive purgation. Wiseman.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• DULL-SIGHTED
  Having poor eyesight.